Chapter 1192: Withdrawal of Troops Overseas (Ask for Subscription!) )
[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 1192: Withdraw Troops Overseas (Ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! )
The high-sounding words are very good, but Okamura Ninji knows that this is because the heads and brains in the base camp are reluctant to give up the wealth of Jiangnan, China, and every year they can get countless huge possessions from this land, so these people will never give up as long as they have the slightest hope. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
But knowing is knowing, but some things can never be changed by knowing, so Okamura Ninji had to command the remaining hundreds of thousands of remnants to defend the Suzhou and Hangzhou regions.
The war in Chinese mainland continued, and whether the Japanese wanted it or not, the PLA troops continued to advance southward.
Although the Japanese army also carried out relatively heroic counterattacks in various places, Ma Zheng used frog jumping tactics and large depth and detour tactics from time to time to cut the sharp blade to the throat of the Japanese again and again.
Due to the lack of intelligence, the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Japanese army simply did not know how many PLAs there were, let alone where these PLAs were, and when they would appear at their door and wrap them in dumplings.
At the same time, the tide of the war in Europe took a turning point. After the Allied landings in Normandy, it took three months of hard fighting, and finally the French were defeated.
In the past few months, the Allies have eliminated or inflicted heavy losses on 70 German divisions, three German marshals and one army group commander have been removed from their posts or resigned, 20 senior generals such as commanders, army commanders, and division commanders of German army groups have been killed and captured, and more than 3,000 German artillery pieces of various kinds have been captured and destroyed, and more than 1,000 combat vehicles have been destroyed.
In addition, the Germans lost 3,500 aircraft, 13,000 tanks, 20,000 vehicles of various types, and 800,000 personnel.
On the other hand, the Soviet Union also actively cooperated with the Allied forces in Western Europe on the Eastern Front, and after 12 major battles, finally drove the German army out of Poland completely.
At the same time, a large number of resistance forces from Eastern European countries came out one after another to liberate Eastern Europe together with the Soviet army.
At this point, the Allies had basically taken the initiative in the war in Europe, Hitler's rule was in jeopardy, and although the German army was still strong, everyone could see that Germany's defeat was assured, and the Second World War had come to an end.
In the Pacific theater, the United States and Japan have already begun to fight for Iwo Jima and the Ryukyu Islands, and the war is infinitely close to the Japanese mainland.
The Japanese army also suffered a crushing defeat on the Chinese battlefield, and in less than two months was advanced more than 500 kilometers south by the People's Liberation Army, and also took Nanjing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and other large cities. Such a record is unbelievable not only for the Americans, but also for the Japanese.
With such a record of the Chinese there, the Americans are really embarrassed to be lazy, otherwise they will be put on their heads a big hat that even the Chinese cannot compare, which is unacceptable to proud Americans, especially American soldiers.
Therefore, the US Department of Defense ordered Admiral MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz to immediately launch fire reconnaissance on Iwo Jima and the Ryukyu Islands, and at the same time to carry out landing operations on the islands as originally planned.
At the same time, the air forces of China and the United States continued to carpet bomb the Japanese mainland in order to strike at Japan's war potential.
Immediately afterwards, the 600,000 troops of the three main armies of Ma Zheng's main force sent troops to the Korean Peninsula to deal a final blow to the Kwantung Army that was cowering on the Korean Peninsula.
Because most of the main force of the Kwantung Army had been wiped out in the previous Northeast Battle, and a large number of Korean soldiers had infiltrated Korea to conduct guerrilla warfare before the army launched the attack, and called on and organized the Korean people to resist, the Japanese army fell into passivity at the beginning of the battle, not only was it defeated and retreated by Ma Zheng's troops on the front line, but also the rear resistance movement rose and fell one after another.
At the end of February, Liu Fengchi's unit won another major victory on the Korean battlefield, and after continuously breaking through the Japanese defense line, it finally captured Pyongyang, the most important city in North Korea, and eliminated the Japanese puppet army of four divisions, forcing the Japanese army to abandon North Korea and withdraw the whole army to South Korea.
In the Burma battlefield, the expeditionary force also achieved brilliant results, with the cooperation of the British army, Wei Lihuang's division inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese 15th Army in Burma, and the three divisions of the division were completely annihilated, and then had to withdraw from Burma.
The Chinese expeditionary force pursued despite fatigue, and the battle line was pushed into Thai territory. The Japanese army and the Thai army urgently deployed in the mountains of western Thailand, and 200,000 troops marched on the Thai-Burmese border.
However, what the Japanese and Thai coalition forces never expected was that the Sino-British coalition forces suddenly carried out airborne operations in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, and three divisions of paratroopers suddenly arrived in Bangkok and occupied the city in a very short time, and all Thai ministers, including the King of Thailand, became prisoners of the allies.
Then the army divided into two routes, and cooperated with the army on the western front to attack the Japanese-Thai coalition army from east to west, and broke it!
On March 3, after eliminating four divisions of the Japanese army, Thailand announced its surrender. The only ally of the Japanese army in Asia was crushed by the Sino-British coalition in just one week.
After the surrender of Thailand, the Japanese army was unable to stand alone. At this point, the Japanese army was eroded on all fronts in the entire Asian theater, and the war situation was developing in an extremely unfavorable direction for the Japanese army, and there was even a danger of collapse on the entire front.
On March 5, 1943, after more than 10 days of arguing in front of the Imperial Palace, the Japanese government finally decided to negotiate peace, and the Japanese government sent ambassadors to China, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Britain to discuss peace talks.
This time, the Japanese Government lowered its shelf, not only agreeing to immediately withdraw its troops from the entire Asian theater, but also deciding to spit out all the benefits that the Japanese Government has made in the Asian region over the past 100 years, and also agreed to pay $200 million in war reparations to China, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Britain each of them.
In this regard, China's opinion is still very clear and not uncommon. Unless the Japanese Government surrenders unconditionally, China will not hold any form of talks with the Japanese Government. At the same time, the Chinese government sent a telegram to the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and other countries, hoping that they would also refrain from holding talks with Japan.
The Chinese Government has obstructed this, and Japan's attempt at peace talks has been ruined for a time. The Japanese Government knew that China was determined to fight Japan, and there was absolutely no room for return, so it had no choice but to prepare for a decisive battle on its own soil.
At this time, the Japanese government and the base camp had clearly seen that now the Japanese army was in a dangerous situation of rapid collapse, and after the navy suffered heavy losses, they no longer had the capital to fight with the allies such as China, the United States, and Britain, and the most important thing now was not how to win the war, but how to keep the Japanese archipelago.
After some quarrels and bickering, the Japanese army headquarters finally made a difficult decision - to completely withdraw its troops in the Asian theater.
At present, the Japanese army has a total of 5 million troops, of which 800,000 are in the Chinese battlefield, 500,000 are in the Korean Peninsula, 800,000 in the Indochina Peninsula, 300,000 in the Malay Peninsula, 300,000 in the Dutch East Indies, 100,000 in Treasure Island and Hong Kong Island, 50,000 in South Sakhalin, and the remaining 2 million are all deployed in the Japanese mainland. As long as these troops stationed overseas are rushed back to China, neither the Chinese nor the Americans will want to take the Japanese archipelago.
Moreover, Japan still has a population of 70 million, and as long as the government orders it, it can raise more than 10 million troops at any time. Coupled with the fact that it is now a land defense operation, there should be no problems in terms of morale.
However, the only thing that worries people now is how to safely withdraw the nearly 3 million troops overseas to the Japanese mainland, knowing that at least 500 large and small ships and an unknown number of submarines of the Allied forces have blockaded the whole of Japan, and how to evade the Allied navy is a very troublesome problem.
However, Muto Yoshiyong Osa of the Staff Section of the Naval Operations Department put forward a relatively safe combat plan, and Muto Daisa believed that although the navy of the Great Japanese Empire had suffered heavy losses, it was not at all devoid of combat effectiveness, and that it was still possible to make a large fleet by making do, and it was a big deal to pull out all the training ships of the naval school and those warships that had been decommissioned.
Muto Daisa did not mean to use this fleet to fight with the Americans, it was useless, after all, the gap between the two sides could no longer be bridged. But the Reich could use this fleet to attract the attention of the Americans, and as long as the main forces of the U.S. Navy were drawn elsewhere, the base camp could use a large number of civilian ships to withdraw all the troops on the overseas battlefield to the Japanese archipelago.
After all, Japan is an island country, and almost every citizen along the coast has a ship, and there are more than 40,000 ocean-going ships registered with the Metropolitan Police Department alone, and half of them can be assembled in a short period of time.
After some argumentation, the base camp thought that Muto Daisa's plan was very feasible, thinking that the British and French troops did not rely on fishing boats when they retreated from Dunkirk, and then the base camp decided to withdraw troops according to Muto Daisa's plan.